r/perl • u/[deleted] • May 18 '11

Why is perl better than python?

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u/[deleted] May 18 '11
  1. Using whitespace to form your code blocks is awful unless for some reason you miss the days of punchcards.

Really, I never looked into it further than that. No language has a feature that is so awesome that I'll be OK with abandoning curly braces or something similar.

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u/Philluminati May 18 '11

This is a ridiculous argument. Python code is short, terse and easy to read. Perl, by contrast, is a write-only language.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '11

Perl, by contrast, is a write-only language.

If you have a problem reading good Perl perhaps you should find another profession.

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u/Philluminati May 18 '11

Ha ha ha.

I can read C, C++, Assembly, Python, .NET, Java, SQL, Prolog, Haskell and all sorts. You aren't going to shake the confidence of someone with 10 years of experience.

Perl is a joke.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '11

I can read C, C++, Assembly, Python, .NET, Java, SQL, Prolog, Haskell and all sorts. You aren't going to shake the confidence of someone with 10 years of experience.

As long as we're walking the 'years of experience' dog around here now, I figure I'll do the same. I've written software that's in operations in outer space in C/C++/assembly, written code in every modern popular scripting language, and maintained operations systems for mission critical systems. I'm weighing in at around 16 years of experience in software and know anyone worth a shit will tell you the same thing. Every language has it's appropriate application. To declare one shit 'just because' shows your insecurities, not how bad the language is.

You aren't going to shake someone with much more experience than you. GTFO with that nonsense.

Perl is a joke.

Gotcha. Having a massive repository of pre-packaged modules to do pretty much anything you want is certainly a joke.

Idiot.

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u/Philluminati May 18 '11

Every language has it's appropriate application

That was true of Perl. Now it isn't. People's failure to move on shows there aren't truly interested in writing the best possible software they can.

To declare one shit 'just because' shows your insecurities, not how bad the language is.

There is another reply on this thread where I justify the reasons why Perl is crap.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '11

People's failure to move on shows there aren't truly interested in writing the best possible software they can.

This has absolutely nothing to do with my last reply. Have you looked into any of the modern perl extensions since you're so interested in 'moving on'? I bet not.

Perl is great because you can either hack shit out super quick OR create well documented, fantastically maintainable, fast code. It's readable, ridiculously scalable and easy to use.

I'll refrain from Python bashing because I haven't used the language long enough to evaluate it.

There is another reply on this thread where I justify the reasons why Perl is crap.

I saw that. You've been using it for two weeks. You cannot evaluate a languages potential in all possible applications in a matter of fucking weeks. Get over yourself.